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You’ve heard about the attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya yesterday. The U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three staff members, were killed.

That the violence happened on 9/11 casts a deeper shadow over these terrible events. But the idea that they could become a weapon of political destruction in our presidential race is crazy. (USA Today)

Turning to Europe...economic fears of a euro crash are abating on the news that Germany finally approved a 700 billion euro “crisis-fighting fund”, called the European Stability Mechanism. We’ll clink to that. (Yahoo Finance)

On Facebook...why do moms post pix of their kids as a profile photo, instead of using a picture of themselves? Feminist author Katie Roiphe rants—and misses the point. Our kids are cuter! (Financial Times)